[Dxbase] Two radios, two computers same log.

[Peter Dougherty]

At 07:10 PM 12/10/2006, K8FC wrote:
>Folks, thought I would ask here for a solution before it becomes 
>difficult.  I want to use the same log here in the station on two 
>different radios and two separate computers.  I can open the log via 
>the network from either computer.  (I keep the log on a file server 
>here in the shack) I would like to be able to use the log on two 
>different rigs but not at the same time no SO2R just using two different rigs.

This is how I have DX Base set up at my club station, in a roundabout 
way. We have two PCs and two radios; one is dedicated to high-power 
HF, one is on an FT-847 100W HF/VHF/UHF/Satellite radio. I've fully 
installed DX Base on each machine, as if it were just local to that 
one box, and set up all radio control, etc. Once each iteration is 
working perfectly what I do is decide which is the master station and 
which is the slave. In our case, the high-power HF station is the 
master. That iteration of DX Base runs normally. The DX Base folder 
is shared and permissions set to allow the folder and share to be 
accessed by the other PC.

On the slave computer, I've mapped a drive to the DX Base folder, and 
I use this mapping for the location of the wb2jsm.mdb file that I use 
as the database of reference. So far we've only used one PC active at 
a time; I haven't tried to write to the .mdb file from two different 
computers, so try that at your own risk. This setup has been 
extremely reliable so far. No Q's have ever been lost. When it comes 
time to backup the log, we backup the files to the slave PC, so in 
the event the master's HDD goes poof, we won't have lost much (plus I 
keep a copy of it offsite on my home PC and Flash drive).

I really hope this app will someday be re-written to allow proper 
server-client operation for large club environments.



Cheers,

Peter,
W2IRT